And though Rossi was turned on by the prospect of a day-in-the-life-style record of all sections of the paper, there was an urgency to this story, in focusing on the media desk, that I think exceeded my aesthetic or creative desire to make a movie like that. Whether its showing Carr taking several months to investigate mismanagement at the Tribune Company or Headlam sagely refusing to cover the coverage of a phony Iraq-troop withdrawal, Rossi hopes the film can encourage a broader conversation about the newspaper industry and the extent to which viable print journalism will be part of a democratic future.